This is as current as "Lindbergh Crosses Atlantic" (c. 2005, apparently), but I'll have something to do this afternoon while I hunt down the results of this guy's day in court:
http://barista.media2.org/?p=2040
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This is as current as "Lindbergh Crosses Atlantic" (c. 2005, apparently), but I'll have something to do this afternoon while I hunt down the results of this guy's day in court:
http://barista.media2.org/?p=2040
http://barista.media2.org/?p=2040
Whole thing at http://www.cartype.com/page.cfm?id=229
Result:
The copyright holder of the internationally-famous VW logo is not to be Nikolai Borg. His suit against the Wolfsburg car concern has been dismissed by the Vienna Business Court. The judges did not deny in any way that Borg had drawn up the design in the 30s and had also delivered it. But the logo itself had already existed for a while prior to this. *** The court found in favor of VW. A certain Ludwig Hohlwein had already designed apposite logos in 1920, said an expert on Copyright and Patent Law, Michel Walter. The actual inventor of the VW emblem should however be viewed as Franz Xaver Reimspiess, whose original design had already been submitted in a trademark application from 1938.
Result:
The copyright holder of the internationally-famous VW logo is not to be Nikolai Borg. His suit against the Wolfsburg car concern has been dismissed by the Vienna Business Court. The judges did not deny in any way that Borg had drawn up the design in the 30s and had also delivered it. But the logo itself had already existed for a while prior to this. *** The court found in favor of VW. A certain Ludwig Hohlwein had already designed apposite logos in 1920, said an expert on Copyright and Patent Law, Michel Walter. The actual inventor of the VW emblem should however be viewed as Franz Xaver Reimspiess, whose original design had already been submitted in a trademark application from 1938.
What I read:
Blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah, blah. blah BLAH frickin lawyers can polish my chrome trailer hitch with their windpipes!
Blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah, blah. blah BLAH frickin lawyers can polish my chrome trailer hitch with their windpipes!